CSUN still adheres to an expired agreement between the California National Organization for Women and the CSU system that ensures that more women than men participate in sports. The Cal-NOW agreement called for gender equity in sports in accordance to the proportion of a school’s population.

Since August 1980, the Deaf CSUNians work to improve the college experience and services for the deaf and hard-of-hearing students With more than 200 members and nine committees, it is one of the largest organizations on campus, said Gary Sanderson, interim director of the National Center on Deafness (NCOD).

The CSUN Philosophy Department and a university will exchange faculty as part of a recent effort for both universities to learn more about Western and Chinese philosophies, university officials said. A Chinese professor will be coming to CSUN to train faculty and lecture students in Chinese philosophy in the near future as part an agreement made in Summer 2005 with Shanghai Normal University’s philosophy department to exchange faculty every year, aid Gregory Velazco y Trianosky, Philosophy Department chair.

Despite an improvement from the first- day performance, the Cal State Northridge women’s golf team finished in eigth place at the Lady Braveheart Challange at the Oak Valley Golf Course. “Half of the team, including me, were sick,” said head coach Bonnie Murphy.

Some CSUN students remain unsatisfied and unaware of the features on webmail even after the university promoted it as the main source of communication on campus to students last semester. For some students like Keith Bobrosky, junior marketing major, the feature of forwarding e-mails does not seem to work all the time.

Daily Sundial The Cal State Northridge women’s water polo team failed to take advantage of their season home opener against the UCLA Bruins and the California State University Bakersfield (CSUB) Roadrunners Feb. 3. The Matadors lost the first match against the Bruins 20-2 and then lost a close match to CSUB, 13-11.

Daily Sundial The number of Saudi Arabian students attending CSUN recently increased due to scholarships offered by the their government since July of 2005. The Saudi government made a commitment to education for its citizens interested in attending a university by offering 5,000 scholarships that include four years and housing, said Carol McAllister, assistant director of Admissions and Records.

Daily Sundial Despite the emergency blue light phones all over campus, several CSUN students still don’t know much about them. “I don’t know what they are,” said sophomore Yesenia Arias. She said no one ever told her the purpose of the lights. Arias said students may not know about the emergency blue light phones because they are not informed about them at orientation or anywhere, “You push (a button on the phone) and it calls the campus police, right?” said junior history major Liliana Morales.

Special to Daily Sundial The CSUN website will go through several changes within the start of Spring 2006, with two main goals: to be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act and to have a consistent look for all campus sites, said Ken Swisher, director of marketing communications.